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14 July 2023

[Infography] Focus on the French financial markets authority activity (AMF)

The French Financial Markets Authority (“AMF”) intensive enforcement activity again demonstrates the regulator’s ambition to continuously strengthen market surveillance, through processing more and more data and international cooperation leading to numerous investigations carried out in coordination with foreign regulators. Inspections were also very active and the AMF Enforcement Committee recently issued record-breaking sanctions for professional misconducts. Finally, the AMF announced that sustainable finance and AML-FT obligations will be among its next priorities, including for enforcement.

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